Very Vintage, yet Futuristic Celluloid Sunglasses
As a collector, sometimes if something was cool I’d pick up more than one. Such was the case with these French celluloid sunglasses from the 1930s. Both frame front and lens are one piece...
Tagged: Modernism
1960s Op-Art Sunglasses
Fashion cycles went quickly and differed radically from year to year during the 1960s. I’ll admit I have a fondness for much of the design of the era. I still marvel at pictures of...
Vintage Sunglasses as Modernist Sculpture
We talk about vintage eyewear on Thursdays… For some reason I looked up Ray Ban Wayfarers in Wikipedia. I was confronted with a gigantic entry that begins with this sentence: “Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses have...
Udo Proksch: Carrera Sunglasses Designer and Mass Murderer
In fashion design it’s usually the apparel designers who are colorful. It’s a selling point. I suspect some people trust an object or article of clothing more if the creator is theatrically artistic or...
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